Can I work on a new theme without deactivating the current one?

  • I want to revamp my current website but I don’t want to deactivate or lose my current theme if it doesn’t look better. Is there a way to do that or do I have to activate the new theme?

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  • Not directly, but…

    Some hosting companies have a “staging area”, check to see if yours does. This is basically a copy of your site you can experiment with and it doesn’t affect your main site until you are ready to push the changes.

    Another way is to download your site and work on it on your computer. There are 2 main ways to do this, one is using containers (Search the web for WordPress and Docker) and the other is setting up a server on your computer, install WordPress and import your site (Search the web for WordPress and MAMP). Once you are happy you can either upload your new theme or the entire site you have on your computer. This can be quite daunting but you would learn lots of new skills.

    To explain the steps involved would be out of the scope of a reply, but those are the basics and should point you in the irght direction. MAMP and Docker are given as examples to point you in the right direction, these are not reccomendations to use those particular sevices.

    Thread Starter frr09

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    @pichichi thank you for the detailed reply. I’ll ask my host about the staging area. You are right, the process of working on it on my computer does sound daunting and I’m not a coder/ web designer. But I will look into it and see if it’s doable, it would make things a lot easier. Thanks again!

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